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Geographical breakdown

#

Country

As %

1

GB

21%

1

AU

21%

3

NZ

7%

3

US

7%

3

BR

7%

–

Unknown

35%

Tweeter demographics

Type

Count

As %

Scientists

7

50%

Members of the public

7

50%

Mendeley readership

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 17 Mendeley readers of this article.
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Geographical breakdown

#

Country

As %

1

GB

5%

1

JP

5%

1

ID

5%

1

ES

5%

1

BR

5%

–

Unknown

70%

Reader demographics

Readers by discipline

Count

As %

Biological Sciences

8

50%

Medicine

3

18%

Computer and Information Science

3

18%

Chemistry

1

6%

Business Administration

1

6%

Readers by professional status

Count

As %

Student (Master)

8

50%

Researcher (at a non-Academic Institution)

3

18%

Other Professional

2

12%

Ph.D. Student

1

6%

Student (Postgraduate)

1

6%

Other

1

6%

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The context below was calculated when this article was last mentioned on
22nd November 2014

Compared to all articles in Parasitology

So far Altmetric has tracked 439 articles from this journal. They typically receive a little less attention than average, with a mean score of 2.8 vs the global average of 4.9. This article has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers. It's actually the highest scoring article in this journal that we've seen so far.

In the99%ile

Ranks
1st

All articles of a similar age

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In the95%ile

Other articles of a similar age in Parasitology

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In the90%ile

Ranks
1st

All articles

More generally, Altmetric has tracked 3,468,825 articles across all journals so far. Compared to these this article has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all articles ever tracked by Altmetric.